Fusion 2009

Ronald Fong will be displaying his work at Fusion 2009

Here's a web poster! Do drop by! :D



Fusion 2009
6 - 7 March 2009
Fri, Sat 10am - 8pm
Nanyang Polytechnic Auditorium

Fusion 2009 is Nanyang Polytechnic | School of Interactive and Digital Media | Graduation Show and Exhibition!

Vue 7 PLE

Hi everyone!


Created with Vue 7 Personal Learning Edition

Vue 7 Digital Nature has been released not too long ago and it's amazing!

I strongly recommend this product to all matte painters. You can get a very good head start to getting the matte done for your film just with a simple setup and let Vue and your machine do the work!

Watch the trailer: http://www.vue7.com/

And if you're interested in learning the software, there's a Personal Learning Edition which you can download for free and try it out!

I've tried it out myself, it's very easy to pick up and it produced nice results considering that it was just a few clicks.
Very interesting!

To matte painters, I think it's a must-have!
To 3D artists or digital compositors like myself, I think it's a good-to-have. I can tackle the trickiest nature effects such as Oceans, Sky, Clouds, Volumetric Clouds, Vegetation.. plus dynamics and simulation! These are difficult to achieve it the usual 3D packages.

So, that's all for this post!
I love software developers who are willing to provide learning editions of their packages.

Demo Reel 2009 Look Test

A paintover the viewport to quickly test the look I'm trying to achieve for the Demo Reel 2009 Opening.

Compositing of 3D Cube with Live Footage

Hello, hope you'll like the video.

The objective of this project is to achieve a reasonable quality match move and also to achieve the same lighting as the original footage.

I know it's not very creative to only do a cube.. I take this as a practice, anyway it's still my initial attempts at matchmoving.

In my opinion, the compositing and lighting is 1000x better than the matchmoving! Hahaha! Can't help it...

I'm quite happy with the result, minimal sliding which I can still improve actually...
Just wanted to move on to the lighting and compositing stage :P
The grain match adds a lot to the realism. Yay!
I'm happy with lighting and compositing too!

Daze

Another doodle.
I usually paint in black and white first to look out for tonal value. This time I used a different approach, I painted in colour.

Didn't turn out extremely well but I'm quite happy with the result. :)

Making of Demo Reel 2009

Hi,

I've been working on Demo Reel 2009 to showcase my latest work.
The target for this reel is to have only the work which I feel is of professional quality. I don't have too many works to showcase, so I'll also be working on some shots in the meantime.

Fusion 2009 - NYP | SIDM | Graduation Show 2009
is around the corner! I'm still quite far from done in terms of compiling my work.
Animation clips have yet to be touched up and rendered nicely.

Hmm.. I'll focus on a few projects and put them in the reel. In the meantime, here's a teaser to the opening of my new Demo Reel!

Still working on the look but it's going somewhere in this direction.

Eyeka Creative Challenge Prize Presentation

Hello everyone!

I had wanted to post this award presentation photograph some time ago.
From left, Zi Chao, Ronald, Yong Yi and most importantly the CEO of Eyeka, Alexandre Olmedo at the Prize Presentation of the Eyeka Creative Challenge.
Thanks Eyeka Asia! :D



This photo is courtesy of Eyeka.

Digiron Work In Progress 5

Testing the rig. I's quite challenging to tweak the cloth simulation, but I've to admit that it'sa lot of fun!

I'm currently doing up the facial controls for Digiron. He's largely animatable already. I just want pump up the rig a little bit more before I begin animating him into the shots.

I'm eating the schedule a little, especially the animation time but I'll be able to make it up. :D

Happy New Year once again!!

Digiron Work In Progress 4

Production Schedule



Rigging and Rendering Test



I came up with a production schedule for Digiron project to pace myself.
Progress is great, texturing turned out better than I expected.

Unwrapping is much of a breeze with Maya 2009's new unfolding.
No need for Roadkill.mel anymore as far as I observe.

So, I'm now in the rigging process for this character and I'm aiming for cloth simulation for him. We'll see how it goes. Mr Chris and Mr Sridhar kindly helped me with some technical issues with nCloth. :) If not for them, I'd be searching high and low for the parameters to increase the simulation solving samples :P

Alright, I'll try my best to stick to the schedule. Digiron's animation test in the next posts! Keep checking back!

Thanks for reading :) Happy New Year! Happy 2009 to all and myself!

3D Lighting and Compositing

Experimenting tracking, lighting and compositing 3D elements with live footage.
My first attempt at feature tracking, so we might spot some sliding in this footage.
Promise to do something more interesting :)